Planet of the Titans U.S.S. Enterprise

I've been working on this for a while now and thought I'd share it over here. It's based on the Ralph McQuarrie & Ken Adam designs for the Enterprise for Planet of the Titans. Obviously I've gone my own direction with the details but I've tried to retain some elements to keep it at least faintly similar to it's original designs. So after a lot of wondering what if this is what I came up with. There's some more pics at my deviantart page http://lordsarvain.deviantart.com/

This is beautiful work and an amazing continuation of that original design.

Dennis, the Adams/McQuarrie design never really got out of the art/tubes & cardboard phase, did it? For all we know, LordSarvain's design is pretty close to what they might have ended up with, only way more detailed.

And this makes me think of the E-D, which the "original" did too. As in, they might have had the Adams/McQuarrie look in mind when they were designing the new Enterprise in the mid-80's.

I really like the attempt to realize the earlier concepts.
And the work is very well done indeed. I like!
However...

I'm not too keen on the style of the nacelles.
Maybe I'm getting the bad aftertaste of the nacelles off the Abramsprise. Or perhaps they look too much like the engines off a Tomcat or Phantom jet fighter.
The intakes, the cowlings, seem too much like conventional propulsion elements rather than warp drive components. Just my personal take.
And yet...the nacelle work IS quite nicely done!

This is beautiful work and an amazing continuation of that original design.

Dennis, the Adams/McQuarrie design never really got out of the art/tubes & cardboard phase, did it? For all we know, LordSarvain's design is pretty close to what they might have ended up with, only way more detailed.

And this makes me think of the E-D, which the "original" did too. As in, they might have had the Adams/McQuarrie look in mind when they were designing the new Enterprise in the mid-80's.

Edit: sorry, meant Enterprise D, not E

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I've always thought the E-D was initially inspired by the McQuarrie design.